Cold, Wet, Dreary

With an emphasis on wet. And cold. And dreary.

We had two very productive weeks here on the farm. The soybean harvest is finished, but there is a lot of corn still in the field. The grain elevators are having a hard time handling and drying the volume of high moisture corn that is coming in. They have been closing early each day and some days not even accepting corn at all! In the afternoons and evenings we haul into our own bin. That is until Saturday when the unloading auger system seemed to disintigrate. And then the weather changed. It is taking us three days to get it repaired and hopefully online by the time the weather allows more harvest.

We are fortunate to have a "new" employee helping us out this fall. He is a former farmer with a lot more experience than I have! Its great not to have to train someone - just give them a job and they can do it.

First firearm deer season is this weekend. It will be the first one that I will miss since I started hunting back in the 1980's. I am hoping that we will be back in the field by Friday and Saturday.

I should be out Christmas shopping on these wet evenings when I can't harvest. But I don't have the motivation yet. Besides, we might still be harvesting at Christmas.